In a Denver Post debate, Republican candidates for governor staked out their positions on a variety of issues, including toll roads, TABOR, guns, immigration, wildfires and marijuana. However, the candidates did clearly agree on two things.

3. EXPOSURE SEEN AS A GIVEN

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Former workers at Golden's Rocky Flats Plant, which manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons, no longer have to reconstruct their own personal histories of radiation exposure in order to receive medical compensation. While hailing the "good news," here's why one former lawmaker says he's frustrated it took so long.

Gene McCracken exhibits a box that was used for training employees who handled plutonium at the former Rocky Flats site on July 10, 2013, in Arvada, Colorado. (Anya Semenoff, The Denver Post)

State lawmakers are looking at the toxic legacy of PCE and other cancer-causing chemicals poisoning soil, water and air inside buildings. Here's why they're pushing to reinstate a tax credit in 2015 that would make $11.2 million a year available to developers working to reclaim "brownfield" sites contaminated by chemical spills.

6. HOW DO TRADER JOE'S PRICES COMPARE?

People crowd into the new Trader Joe's at Colorado Boulevard and East Eighth Avenue for the grand opening of the specialty grocery store Friday. Two other Trader Joe's locations in Colorado also opened Friday. (RJ Sangosti photos, The Denver Post)

Two young boys made a gruesome discovery in the spillway of the Cherry Creek Reservoir 29 years ago today: It was the body of 24-year-old model Vicki Carpenter, wrapped in chains. Reporter Kirk Mitchell examines why this cold case remains unsolved.

SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 19: Ted Ligety of the United States celebrates during the Alpine Skiing Men's Giant Slalom on day 12 of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Rosa Khutor Alpine Center on February 19, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images Europe | Doug Pensinger)

Missy Franklin, Jenny Simpson, Adeline Gray and three other Colorado women could be big players at the 2016 Rio OlympicsWhen people ask Missy Franklin for her thoughts about the Summer Olympics that will begin a year from Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, she hangs a warning label on her answer.